Branding Your Wedding: Taste
Posted in anne, cakes & catering, the planning process by anne
Ah, the tastes of a wedding. Sure, your guests are there to see you lovebirds pledge your undying love and devotion to each other. But what they’re most excited about? The food!
For example, I went to a very very simple wedding last month. The best part (besides the BEAMING bride, seriously, she was brighter than the sun.) was the wedding cake. The icing was the perfect mix of lightness and sweet. Definitely worth hanging out for even though we knew three other people there. I would put it above mine in taste.*
So what kind of food do you pick for a classic wedding? I’m thinking something like miniature crab cakes, sweet chili buffalo wings and belgian endive and goat cheese canapes for hors d’oeuvres. For the soup and salad courses, I’d choose a great baby spinach salad and tomato and basil soup.
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Entrees would be a delicious herb and mint crusted beef tenderloin, eggplant parmesan or buttermilk fried chicken. Sides would include grilled vegetables and roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
Each table would have its own small wedding cake. Easy to cut and serve. The bride and groom can cut their own small cake at a head table.
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The dessert bar menu would all be miniatures! I am loving that trend right now, having had an obsession with anything miniature for most of my life.
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I’m seeing chilled raspberry soup shooters, mini strawberry pies, stacks of shortbread cookies, tiny blueberry cheesecakes, and servings of french silk pie, All classic American tastes.
Thanks to Alexa for posting about the Epicurious Wedding Guide. Now we can all be foodies at our weddings!
Wishing I had the mashed potatoes in front of me now…
A.
*Our cake was very tasty, thanks to my mom! I was all “Um, white on white, please?!” My mom nixed that and added some flavors that worked well. She insisted, and I’ve learned (not the first time) that she was oh so right.
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I am SO SO excited right because I think you might have solved this problem I have been having. I want to have a variety of smaller cakes instead of one huge one, but I couldn’t figure out exactly what I was thinking. What do you think of this idea:
Have 2 or 3 different flavors of cakes, and display them on tables as part of the tablescape. Cute little signs sitting next to them saying what they are. Encourage guests to mix it up and visit different tables looking for the slice they would enjoy the most. I like the idea of making the dessert portion a little bit more casual in some way. What do you think could it work? Will no one get it? Will I miss having a sweet little display with lots of cakes all over it? Should I have emailed this to you instead?
Jenna, I think that’s a WAY cute idea!! I’m not sure that lots of people will get up and mingle to get different flavors, they may just eat the one at their table - but they’re your friends and family so if they’re outgoing and know each other they very well might “get it” and mingle around.
Have you thought about doing 2 small tiers per table - each layer being a different flavor?? Then you could have your different cakes and different flavors.
i love it! even if, like rachel said, it doesn’t get people up and moving, you are giving them a choice and making the food delivery more family-style, which i think is a great touch to the event.
my only question would be the logistics of cutting the small cakes… what type of service are you having? will there be waiters that can cut? or would you just let people cut their own cakes?
I love the small cake idea because of the wedding cake disaster at my own wedding. It involved the bakery of my dreams and miscommunication and NO WEDDING CAKE. At least I had a few days notice, so I actually found an even better bakery and had a small wedding cake made, and then had about 15 amazingly beautiful little cakes and tarts (picture cute French pastry shop) on a dessert table. My mother made gorgeous little sign for each one, and people were WILD about it. It’s the minature thing I think.
I love it! I love the miniature theme you have going with the menu. I’m a big fan of having lots of little tastes of deliciousness.
a wedding is something special and sharing food brings community and togetherness looking forward to mine in 2010 spring…happy bells
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